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“Anna Deavere Smith is a remarkable chronicler of the human character and condition. In her examination of such thorny subjects as race relations or our feelings about death, she has applied her virtuosic talent to questions that most of us would prefer to avoid,” said William Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Mar 13, 2018 · Anna Deavere Smith, a playwright and actress, stars in “Notes From the Field,” an HBO adaptation of one of her plays, and “For the People,” an ABC series. Photographs by Tony Cenicola/The ...
Sep 6, 2022 · Playwright Anna Deavere Smith is broadening her view of history in her fourth production with the American Repertory Theater. With a fresh take on “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” the former MacArthur Fellow has expanded her 1994 Tony-nominated, one-woman play — recounting the aftermath of the riots triggered by the acquittal of white police officers who beat Black motorist Rodney King ...
Apr 4, 2023 · Anna Deavere Smith attends the Center Theatre Group Hosts Opening Night Performance Of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" at Mark Taper Forum on March 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Smith was born on September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland, the first of five children to Anna, an elementary school educator, and Deaver, a coffee merchant. In middle school, she discovered a gift for mimicry; in college, an interest in social justice. As one of only a few African-American students at Beaver College in the 1960s, she ...
Mar 1, 2023 · Anna Deavere Smith and director Gregg T. Daniel revisit the writer/performer's groundbreaking solo documentary theater piece, retrofitted for a cast of five, in a new production at the Mark Taper ...
Feb 9, 2021 · Not by being nice. This article appears in the March 2021 print edition with the headline “The Last of the Nice Negro Girls.”. Anna Deavere Smith, an Atlantic contributing writer, is a ...
